What I Learned from 2 Years at a Digital Agency(blog.jeremyshaw.co.nz) |
What I Learned from 2 Years at a Digital Agency(blog.jeremyshaw.co.nz) |
When the goal is to quickly create a custom-designed site where a client can edit every piece of content I can think of no better tool than Wordpress. 41% of the top 10 million sites run Wordpress making the community ginormous. If a client wants to add a feature to the site such as a live chat or email notification, chances are there is a plugin for it. This overabundance of plugins makes the process infinitely easier for developers and the client gets the result they want much quicker.
If you are not a Wordpress developer you would also be largely surprised at how extendable it is. Want a React frontend on part of the site? You got it. Want to use Wordpress as a CRUD backend? You got it.
I am by no means saying Wordpress is flawless or the best written CMS… but the pros of the community heavily outweigh the cons Wordpress brings to the table. For example, Gatsby offers 2,714 plugins on their Gatsby Plugin Library. Wordpress offers 58,285.
I am interested to see what the future will bring for CMS technology but with Wordpress steadily rising from 13.1% to 41.1% in 10 years, I don’t see it falling off any time soon."